A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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Christ suffers, and in this his tears begin;

Suffers for us, and joy on us bestows:

Suffers to death,—here is his manhood seen;

Suffers to rise,—and hence his Godhead shows;

For man that could not by himself have rose

Out of the grave doth by the Godhead rise;

And God that could not die, in manhood dies,

That we in both might live, by that sweet sacrifice.

Giles Fletcher.

They who have rarest joy, know joy’s true measure;